C. William Allen, Author, The African Interior Mission

C. William Allen is currently Director General of the Civil Service Agency of the Republic of Liberia and was also Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism in the Transitional Government of the Republic of Liberia (October 2003–January 2006). He completed his graduate studies in the United States and earned a Ph.D. in mass communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University.

As an associate professor at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Dr. Allen taught journalism and mass communications (2001–2003). He also taught at the University of South Carolina Spartanburg (now University of South Carolina Upstate), Xavier University in New Orleans, and the University of Liberia. 

While working as a journalist and editor in Liberia, Dr. Allen served as president of the Press Union of Liberia, Inc., (1986–1987) and was founding Editor-in-Chief of the independent Footprints Today daily. He was editor of the Liberian Studies Journal (1995–1998), a scholarly journal dedicated to publication of original research on social, political, economic, scientific, and other issues about Liberia or with implications for Liberia. 

In the United States he also held several journalist-in-residence fellowships at major newspapers, including the Times-Picayune, (New Orleans, LA), Star-Telegram, (Fort Worth, TX), and The Tennessean, (Nashville, TN). 

Dr. Allen has four children—Chuke, Camelot, Chika—and Monja’ Joy who is like a daughter to him.